Research Question: Where does school funding come from? Contributed by: Rachel Mason
Summary Article:
The main point of this article is the issue of funding in small, rural schools. The hardest issue these schools deal with is trying to produce the highest student efficiency with the lowest amount of funds possible. Small and isolated schools receive more finances than large schools from state funds in 30 different states.
The fact that schools with less students receive more funding than highly populated schools does not make sense to me. If a school has a large number of students, it would seem logical for the state to give a larger amount of funds to them.
Analysis Article:
Michigan public schools were predicted to be faced with a large funding deficit in 2005. Due to this fact, 40 elementary and secondary schools were planned to be shut down. This was largely due to a plummeting economy in which unemployment was on the rise and state property and corporate taxes were cut. Some suggested that, in order to avoid greater shortages in the school systems, the state take funds from the Medicaid health service.
In my opinion, Michigan has it's priorities mixed up. Obviously they cannot start taking money from a health care service that poor people need and they cannot keep cutting back on the futures of children. Health and education are two of the most important things for people to have. Michigan, and other midwest states need to start taxing their friends in the big businesses in order to educate their children.
Scholarly Article
This article, like all of the others brings up the debate over where school funding should come from and how it should affect tax payers. The problem raised here is that poorer areas will obviously have less money coming from property taxes which doesn't allow their schools to be as successful as those that are supported by wealthier property owners. This article also proposes that funding for public schools should be handled statewide and not regionally.
Like I stated below, I agree that school funding should come not only be supported locally but also statewide. These public schools are the future of the entire state not just one area of the state.
Editorial:
The age old conflict is brought up in this article. Voters want schools to receive more funding, but do not want their property taxes to increase. But how should they go about acquiring these funds? Some suggest, income tax raises on those who earn the highest wages in the state. This way, local tax payers are not burdened with all of the responsibility public school revenues.
I agree with the idea of people all throughout the state putting their taxes into the public schools. It should not be juts the responsibility of the local tax payers to support the schools. After all, a public school is open to anyone in the state, therefore shouldn't everyone in the state be footing the bill of this education?
Editorial #2
Ohio, much like many of the states in the US, are experiencing a shortage in school funding. Also, much like, many other states, they are having a hard time agreeing on where the money to make up for the shortages should come from. One politician has actually come up with a step by step plan to remedy this issue. He first proposes that they figure out what it actually costs to run a successful school. Then he suggests that property taxes be taken out of the forefront. He proposes instead that a portion of school funding be take from a profit made off of the lottery.
This politician's ideas seem logical but would probably still cause problems for one person or another. However, I think that acquiring school funds from lottery profits is a great way to solve the tax issues a lot of people have. It would ease the stress put on property and business owners and just tax payers in general.
Contributed by: Rachel Mason
Summary Article:
The main point of this article is the issue of funding in small, rural schools. The hardest issue these schools deal with is trying to produce the highest student efficiency with the lowest amount of funds possible. Small and isolated schools receive more finances than large schools from state funds in 30 different states.
The fact that schools with less students receive more funding than highly populated schools does not make sense to me. If a school has a large number of students, it would seem logical for the state to give a larger amount of funds to them.
http://www.ericdigests.org/pre-9221/rural.htm
Analysis Article:
Michigan public schools were predicted to be faced with a large funding deficit in 2005. Due to this fact, 40 elementary and secondary schools were planned to be shut down. This was largely due to a plummeting economy in which unemployment was on the rise and state property and corporate taxes were cut. Some suggested that, in order to avoid greater shortages in the school systems, the state take funds from the Medicaid health service.
In my opinion, Michigan has it's priorities mixed up. Obviously they cannot start taking money from a health care service that poor people need and they cannot keep cutting back on the futures of children. Health and education are two of the most important things for people to have. Michigan, and other midwest states need to start taxing their friends in the big businesses in order to educate their children.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/mich-d17.shtml
Scholarly Article
This article, like all of the others brings up the debate over where school funding should come from and how it should affect tax payers. The problem raised here is that poorer areas will obviously have less money coming from property taxes which doesn't allow their schools to be as successful as those that are supported by wealthier property owners. This article also proposes that funding for public schools should be handled statewide and not regionally.
Like I stated below, I agree that school funding should come not only be supported locally but also statewide. These public schools are the future of the entire state not just one area of the state.
http://0-web.ebscohost.com.helin.uri.edu:80/ehost/detail?vid=15&hid=21&sid=aa72d92a-d0f5-48d4-acb9-0f52b7ff2e2b%40SRCSM1
Editorial:
The age old conflict is brought up in this article. Voters want schools to receive more funding, but do not want their property taxes to increase. But how should they go about acquiring these funds? Some suggest, income tax raises on those who earn the highest wages in the state. This way, local tax payers are not burdened with all of the responsibility public school revenues.
I agree with the idea of people all throughout the state putting their taxes into the public schools. It should not be juts the responsibility of the local tax payers to support the schools. After all, a public school is open to anyone in the state, therefore shouldn't everyone in the state be footing the bill of this education?
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/11/07/levyreax/?rsssource=1
Editorial #2
Ohio, much like many of the states in the US, are experiencing a shortage in school funding. Also, much like, many other states, they are having a hard time agreeing on where the money to make up for the shortages should come from. One politician has actually come up with a step by step plan to remedy this issue. He first proposes that they figure out what it actually costs to run a successful school. Then he suggests that property taxes be taken out of the forefront. He proposes instead that a portion of school funding be take from a profit made off of the lottery.
This politician's ideas seem logical but would probably still cause problems for one person or another. However, I think that acquiring school funds from lottery profits is a great way to solve the tax issues a lot of people have. It would ease the stress put on property and business owners and just tax payers in general.
http://www.mrsmithgoestocolumbus.com/issues_schoolfunding.php
Final Project Part 1 Eval - Rachel